I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.